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Disqus Python API Latest Comments
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.dateparse import parse_datetime
from disqusapi import DisqusAPI
from .utils import smart_safe_excerpt
def get_latest_comments(limit=5):
disqus = DisqusAPI(settings.DISQUS_SECRET_KEY, settings.DISQUS_PUBLIC_KEY)
forum = 'simpleisbetterthancomplex'
results = disqus.get('posts.list', method='get', forum=forum, limit=limit)
comments = list()
thread_cache = dict()
for result in results:
thread_id = result['thread']
if thread_id not in thread_cache.keys():
thread = disqus.get('threads.details', method='get', forum=forum, thread=thread_id)
thread_cache[thread_id] = {
'clean_title': thread['clean_title'],
'link': thread['link']
}
comments.append({
'id': result['id'],
'author_name': result['author']['name'],
'author_avatar': result['author']['avatar']['small']['permalink'],
'date': parse_datetime(result['createdAt']),
'message': smart_safe_excerpt(result['raw_message']),
'thread_title': thread_cache[thread_id]['clean_title'],
'thread_link': thread_cache[thread_id]['link']
})
return comments
# coding: utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import bleach
def smart_safe_excerpt(value, max_length=100):
'''
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5235994/django-template-tag-to-truncate-text
'''
value = bleach.clean(value, strip=True, tags=list()).strip()
if len(value) > max_length:
truncd_val = value[:max_length]
if not len(value) == max_length + 1 and value[max_length + 1] != ' ':
truncd_val = truncd_val[:truncd_val.rfind(' ')]
value = u'{}…'.format(
bleach.linkify(truncd_val)
)
return value
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